Stainless steel scouring pads



June 19, 1962 A. BENJAMIN STAINLESS STEEL SCORING PADS Filed May 25,1959 INVENTOR. ALFRED BENJAMIN ATTOEJVEV United States 3,039,125STAINLESS STEEL SCOURING PADS Alfred Benjamin, 129 W. 120th St, NewYork, N.Y. Filed May 25, 1959, Ser. No. 815,358 1 Claim. (Cl. 15-418)This invention concerns an improvement in scouring pads.

According to the invention there is provided a two-ply scouring pad madeof interwoven or intermeshed stainless steel wool, one side or ply ofthe pad having one grade of coarseness and the other side or ply havinga difierent grade of coarseness. A plastic disk is preferably placedbetween the plies centrally of the pad. Woven steel wool arms extendfrom the pad to which rings are secured to serve as supporting andfastening members for the pad.

It is a principal object of the invention to provide a metal wool padhaving different grades of coarseness of mesh on opposite sides andprovided with means to attach the pad to the hand of the user.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects andadvantages thereof, reference will be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawings, and to the appended claim in which thevarious novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

FIG. 1 is a top plan view of a scouring pad embodying one form of theinvention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken on the plane of the line 22 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a bottom plan view of the pad of FIG. 1, on an enlarged scale.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the scouring pad applied to the hand of a user.

Referring to FIGS. 1-4, there is shown a scouring pad having asubstantially rectangular two-ply body formed of intermeshed or wovenstainless steel wool or wire. One side or ply 12 is woven of fine steelwool or wire in a close weave to provide a rather fine grade ofabrasiveness. The other side or ply 14 is woven of heavier wire in acoarser weave to provide a coarse grade of abrasiveness. The side or ply14 is faster cutting for removing rather large masses of debris from thewalls of pots of aluminum, copper, brass, stainless steel, ceramic,porcelain and the like. The side or ply 12 acts as a polishing 3,039,125Patented June 19, 1962 means to provide a fine polish on the walls of apot which has first been cleaned by the coarser side 14. Heretofore toaccomplish these cleaning and polishing operations it has been necessaryto employ two or more scouring pads of different grades of abrasivenessto accomplish what is performed by the single pad described. A plasticor metal disk 16 is inserted between the plies of material, centrally ofthe pad. A pair of arms 18 and 20 extend from diagonally opposed cornersof the body 10 and carried on the outer ends of said arms are splitrings 18 and 20.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of myinvention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to theprecise constructions herein disclosed and that various changes andmodifications may be made within the scope of the invention as definedin the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by United States Letters Patent is:

A scouring pad, comprising a fiat rectangular body having two pliesinterwoven at mar-gins thereof to form a pocket therebetween, a rigiddisk disposed in said pocket to stiffen the body, one of said pliesbeing a fine woven wire mesh, the other of said plies being a coarsewoven mesh, a pair of integrally woven arms extending outwardly fromdiagonally opposite corners of said body, and split rings on ends of thearms adapted to be engaged with each other to form the arms into a loopfor bold ing the pad on the hand of a person using the same.

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